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About what you'd expect for the price

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: September 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Given that this is the only bowling game on the PS2 I could have given it 4 stars for that alone. However, it's a nice little game that isn't great and isn't terrible. I like the variety of locations from playing in a regular bowling alley to the moon, ancient Egypt, the wild west, Japan and a pirate ship. I like the crazy cast of characters, the silly bowling balls and even the novel idea of "golf" on a bowling alley. The graphics are tolerable, the music changes depending on the location and you can play tourneys, skins games, golf or practice. After good rolls, there is an automatic replay that shows you 3 different angles at once which is nice. Plus you can unlock hidden lanes.
However, with all of that being said, this game still feels empty. Even though you have a choice of characters, they all throw the ball the same. There is no difference between the guy, the little girl and the alien. The ball comes out the same. Only the character looks different. Most of all, it's just shallow. If you play a tourney, it's all over in a matter of like 20 minutes. To make it worse, I found that each bowler has a spot that you can actually count the boards over from the gutter, set him up, hit the "x" button once, then sit back and watch the ball go into the pocket consistently. I have yet to bowl a perfect game but I have come pretty close. The replay value just isn't here. If there was a deeper tourney mode or if you could build your player like a golf game that might help. But unlocking the night version of each lane or playing a golf game just doesn't do it for me.
Don't get me wrong. Until there is another bowling game for the PS2 I will continue playing Strike Force and it is a fun little game that is worth it's asking price. but, don't expect anything more than that. Unfortunately, all of us bowling fans out here have been thrown a bone when were expecting some meat.

Decent game for the price....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: May 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for $10 at Best Buy. It's a pretty fun game multiplayer, but playing against the computer can get boring fairly fast.

I'm not going to lie, the graphics are down right terrible and players are limited to very few movements and look choppy. However, we all know that graphics don't make a game. It's a fairly challenging game, with a lot of fun places you can bowl other than the ol' bowling alley, including the jungle and a pirate ship. Some of the characters are laugable as well, besides your average bowlers, you can also bowl as a skeleton or an alien.

All in all, Strike Force is a decent game, and it's nice to see that there is a bowling game out there. It could provide a fun Friday night with some friends, but don't expect to play it much alone. It's certainly worth the $10-$15 price tag.

Don't let this game pass you by!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've owned every bowling game ever made for the Playstation 1. While I've enjoyed them all, some were better than others. Strike Force Bowling is the first bowling game for the Playstation 2. It's a simple, modest beginning. The game is easy to pick up and start playing. There's a standard alley and a bunch of unusual ones. The graphics are solid, pin action is terrific!, and the adjustable camera angles are a welcome relief to other games that didn't offer any. Overall, Strike Force Bowling is a very enjoyable game with enough variations to keep you occupied for some time. Don't miss it, especially at this price!

Not that bad...Not that good...Worth the price

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

OK so I purchased this game because it was cheap at a local store. Usually I check Amazon.com out to see what other people thought of a game before I buy it but nobody had ever written a review here so I guess I am the first one. Someone told me that it was like the bowling version of Hot Shots Golf 3 - a cheesey yet fun and addictive arcade version of a sport. Aside from the ability to bowl in a normal bowling alley, you can bowl on an egyptian pyramid, space ship or pirate ship. Lets start with the positive: its a fairly easy game to understand and control (didn't even have to read the instructions), a good concept and fun when playing with a couple others and a cheap price. Now the bad: little to no features (create a player would have been nice), absolutley poor graphics (something I expect out of a Super Nintendo) and poor camera angles (the player gets in the way of the lane so you have to assume you where you are going to bowl - sounds bad but you get used to it). Overall, this is simply a game that is blah - nothing great, nothing extremley horrible, the fact that the price to but it is basically the equivalent of renting it 3 times made it worth my while.

Great Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is an inexpensive and fun title that is a must have for your family PS2 collection. Not only is there traditional bowling, but you also get to bowl in many other scenarios (wild west, on the beach, etc.). The game is easy to learn, but challenging enough to be highly addicting. Your family will fight over this game, saying "I'm next!"

HMMM! Bowling HUH?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well i'll be, a bowling game huh? Not as bad as AMF but not as good as Cricuit Pro 1&2 or ten pin alley, this game offers a variety of bowlers, balls and locations to test your bowling skill. The fun of unlocking various characters and locations is great until 10 minutes later you realized that everything is basically done and you have nothing to look forward to. Well how about winning money in tournaments? Well 5 minutes into gameplay I found a mark in the gutter that allows you to shoot 300 for 6 games without resetting the oil averaging 300 for 87 games you get bored with winning tournaments. If you dont cheat, the game is more challenging. Not bad but not good either!

jess & darrel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

strike force bowling is a fun game to play with the whole family i like all the different charactors thay have in it and its really easy to learn and would recommend it to everyone who enjoys bowling

Party like it's 1998

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Not a good game at all.
The graphics are something you might expect out of a PS1 game with blocky flavorless characters that move in an odd herky jerky style in cut scenes and can only seem to manage a rather wan amount of excitement when making a strike. This game generally looks and plays like it's 1998 and it would've only been just Ok even by those lower standards.

It appears to have been designed and programmed by chimps with learning disabilities who've been living in unheated caves randomly tapping out 1's and 0's onto a Win95 machine.

The bowling interface is pretty basic and easily figured out, (which is nice because it's not explained at all in the booklet.) with a very fast three hit meter system and a very direct aiming mechanism. Position the chunk of polygons that resemble the bowler, move forward and aim on the lane and then you're off.
The problem is that when you get down to the actual nitty gritty of actually bowling the gameplay is every bit as exciting as grating carrots. I've gotten more satisfaction out of clipping my toenails.
It has a few unlockables, but only the most masochistic and seriously impaired would waste the time to get there.

This game is just plain bad.

I seriously think that the bowling mini game you get in Tekken 4 is a better bowling experience than this. So much so I'll repeat it for emphasis. The Bowling Mini Game in Tekken 4 is better than Strike Force Bowling. Tekken 4.

But if you're really jonesing for a wacky bowling game, avoid this mess. Get SuperMonkeyBall instead where bowling is one of over a dozen other games, that's more fun, more challenging and there's a hell of a lot more to it for your money than this wretched waste of plastic.

Play the bowling mini game in Tekken Tag Tournament instead!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I agree with the previous reviewer, who happens to be my husband. After playing the Tekken Bowl mini game in Tekken Tag Tournament and enjoying it immensely, I wanted to try out a more serious, dedicated bowling title. There wasn't much out there so my husband ended up getting me this.

I was hoping for something along the lines of Hot Shots Golf in bowling form, with fun characters and environments, but this game disappoints on almost all levels. First off, the graphics are PS1 quality at best. The characters are unimaginative, look odd, and move awkwardly. The speed/accuracy gauge abruptly shows up only AFTER you've pressed the X button to release the ball, which is unsettling at first, and then just plain annoying. Though there are a lot of choices for bowling balls (coconut, anyone?) and a fair number of locations to select from, game play is so bad that you just don't care.

Recommendation? Get Tekken Tag Tournament. It's going for less than this game used, and you get a fighting game, to boot. It's way easier to control, and the characters are far better rendered, a lot more varied, and are even endearing -- especially when they do their own personal victory dances following a strike or spare. In other words, it's actually FUN.

Review Strike Force Bowling

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty fun game to play with more than 1 person. It could be a little more easier to get strikes.

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